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\contentsline {chapter}{Contents\markboth {\MakeUppercase {Contents}}{\MakeUppercase {Contents}}}{i}{section*.1}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {1}Introduction}{1}{section.1.1}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {2}Background}{2}{section.1.2}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {3}Motivation}{3}{section.1.3}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {4}Problem definition}{4}{section.1.4}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.1}Approach}{4}{subsection.1.4.1}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.2}Proposed methodology}{4}{subsection.1.4.2}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.3}Data preparation}{4}{subsection.1.4.3}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.4}Querying the Web}{6}{subsection.1.4.4}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {4.4.1}TF-IDF}{7}{subsubsection.1.4.4.1}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {4.4.2}Frequency list}{7}{subsubsection.1.4.4.2}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {4.4.3}Web query}{7}{subsubsection.1.4.4.3}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.5}Distributional similarity}{8}{subsection.1.4.5}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {4.5.1}Context}{8}{subsubsection.1.4.5.1}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {4.5.2}Weights}{8}{subsubsection.1.4.5.2}
\contentsline {subsubsection}{\numberline {4.5.3}Semantic similarity measures}{9}{subsubsection.1.4.5.3}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.6}Graph construction}{10}{subsection.1.4.6}
\contentsline {subsection}{\numberline {4.7}Graph-based measures}{11}{subsection.1.4.7}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {5}Experiments and Results}{12}{section.1.5}
\contentsline {section}{\numberline {6}Conclusions and Future Work}{14}{section.1.6}
\contentsline {chapter}{Bibliography}{15}{chapter*.3}
